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Founded in the 1970s, the journal Nomadic Peoples has a long and respected position in the scholarship devoted to peoples who maintain a mobile way of life such as nomadic pastoralists, hunters and gatherers, and other peripatetics. The journal’s aim is to provide the scientific community and the general public with new research on past and changing aspects of the culture and society, ecology, economy, and politics of mobile peoples. The journal is international in geographical spread, as nomadic or recently-mobile peoples are found on all the continents. Journal articles discuss some of the challenges faced by nomadic peoples in a rapidly changing world, and their adaptations to new ways of life. As the founding editor, Professor Philip Salzman remarked in 1984, the journal crosses disciplinary and functional specializations, from academics to administrators. In recent years, the Journal has expanded its scope to encompass natural science perspectives on nomadic peoples along side the traditional anthropological and ethnological ones. Contributors and consulting editors include anthropologists as well as development practitioners, ecologists, economists, policy-makers, and range and livestock scientists.

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Terms Related to the Moving Wall

Fixed walls: Journals with no new volumes being added to the archive.

Absorbed: Journals that are combined with another title.

Complete: Journals that are no longer published or that have been
combined with another title.